Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As Geoff Livingston further notes on Social Media Club blog : "The time to for action is now, and in a year when many of us are suffering financial hardship, we can still make a difference. Blog Components There is also a bloggers kit and blogger outreach effort underway. Just Africa. Darfur Voices. GI-NET's Blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

"[S]top thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. Africa is not a country. Carry at least one cloth shopping bag with me at all times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Certainly, giving from individuals won't be enough to fix the economy and provide the resources that charities need to deliver important services in hard economic times. March: March is beginning of the spring and spending more time outdoors. Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

NTEN committee members are the volunteers who work behind the scenes, contributing their expertise, time, and advice to help shape NTEN programming. Tobias Eigen, Executive Director, Kabissa - Space for Change in Africa. Emily Weinberg, Nonprofit Blogger. A big thanks to all of our committee members: Editorial Committee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation. The game needs more time and if there is no time on the agenda, then a different design is needed. . All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). Convio or Causes? blog thought it was cool too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Michelle Murrain is curbing her time on "walled gardens " like LinkedIn and Facebook while pondering the question, " How Open Is Facebook, Really? Nonprofit Times covers it here. is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Ambassadors in Africa - An Interview with Kim Lowery, Kabissa. Blackbaud, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! Six Proposals That Impact Civil Society in Africa looked at the six Net2 attributes and africa location. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. You, as the instructor, will learn along with them because you are not the one talking the whole time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Just as blogging is now becoming mainstream, but was ahead of the curve three or four years ago (and several Bloggers , are now seen as influencials (and members of the Press (sorta) - if they have a wide enough audience). I sent an IM to Jonathan Fanton about an African intitiated Virtual Africa portal to Second Life (see next post!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. " She has worked in Africa as a trainer and later as an organisational advisor. But that really takes up time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

NpTech Tools Sounds like Gavin of Gavin's Digital Diner had a great time sipping Burgundy wines in France, but even better wrote a detailed description of his damn DAM system. " to pursue your grassroots agenda in Africa. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

This post traces the evolution of social networking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players. " Gates Foundation also announced grants to programs aimed at helping small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion." If you're short on time, read the abtracts and dive deeper into Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running! This is a must-read. There are 18 articles.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Her thoughts, while controversial at the time, blazed the trail for future feminist thinkers. Roxane Gay.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 2, 2007

Those of you who have been following me for a while have noticed that I've become interested in West Africa. Covering all of Africa isn't enough for this prolific writer. Global Voices blogger Jennifer Brea has her own Afri-focused blog here. IRIN News Africa. Here are a few blogs I've been reading since my return.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. Over time, this wears down the spine and causes disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2012

During the conference, “a small army of guest bloggers [and] grantmakers, who [attended GEO] posted their reflections on the session and LIP in general on my blog. 4) Building capacity building infrastructure in underserved areas abroad, such as South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. 2) Participation in peer learning communities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Two or three times a year, I publish a president's update for Benetech. Craig Wing An electrical engineer, MBA student, South African of Chinese descent, founder of not one but two companies, world traveler, former missionary, and current blogger, it's pretty hard to keep up with Craig Wing, let alone categorize him.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The Arab Spring also demonstrated that storytelling doesn’t need a big budget or tons of editing time to be effective. For example, World Press Photo put together this powerful series on life in North Africa, giving an inside perspective not found in headlines, soundbites, or protest clips. Signs of the Times: Occupy Wall Street.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Note from Beth: Ashoka's Twitter account was placed on the Twitter Suggested List about the same time as my account. Tom Dawkins, who is responsible for Ashoka Tweets, offered to write a guest post reflecting on some best practices for using Twitter. Conversations focus on next steps and areas for further exploration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2006

Nancy White posted about the Blog Mentoring in Africa project , run by Ore Somolu and Sokari Ekine that she found from reading Joitske's blog. Sokari has a summary on Global s on International Women's Day and how African bloggers have choosen to honour African women.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

I thought, "What would happen if we began the process of aligning our heartfelt intentions, our energy, our time, and also our money to be able to benefit some particular causes?" But every time I would leave a workshop, I would leave with this haunting feeling of, "Now what?" I knew that the work that I was doing was effective.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 13, 2011

These waves have been met with resistance, even violence at times. The second came involuntarily as slaves from Africa. As a nonprofit executive for nearly forty years, I was used to having the next generations put in their time by learning on the job and gradually moving into leadership.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I hope you'll take the time to read it, because they all have some great advice. So they'll each tell you a little about that, and we'll have time for questions and answers at the end. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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